ML20153G389

Informs That Union of Concerned Scientists Fully Supports Citizens Awareness Network Petition Filed Pursuant to 10CFR2.206,seeking to Revoke or Suspend License for Haddam Neck Nuclear Plant

ML20153G389
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Site:	Haddam Neck File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	09/14/1998
From:	Lochbaum D UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
To:	Callan L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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2.206, NUDOCS 9809300060
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. sumammmmmmmamammmi UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS September 14,1998 Mr. L. Joseph Callan Executive Director for Operations United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 0001

SUBJECT:

CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK'S PETITION ON litDDAM NECK

Dear Mr. Callan:

On September 11,1998, the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) tiled a petition pursuant to 10 CFR Part 2.206 seeking to revoke or suspend the license for the Haddam Neck nuclear plant. UCS has reviewed this petition and fully supports its premise that the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company (CYAPCo) is not adequately discharging its responsibilities under 10 CFR Part 50 and that failure represents an undue risk to both public health and worker safety. The serious of misads entures at the Haddam Neck facility prompted UCS to issue two letters, dated July 29* and 31" 1998, to Mr. Hubert J.

Miller at NRC Region I asking that NRC step in and stop the escalating problems. As pointed out in CAN's petition, the misadventures at Haddam Neck persist.

During the Millstone Unit 3 restart proceedings, UCS expressed its concern that the NRC did not have objective criteria upon which to determine when to prompt the shut down of an under-performing nuclear power plant. The string of problems at Haddam Neck suggests to us that the NRC also lacks objective criteria upon which to detennine when to take comparable actions during decommissioning activities.

UCS is additionally concemed about the safety culture at the Haddam Neck plant. I have heard from several reliable sources that management at Haddam Neck is handling employee concerns inappropriately. That infonnation appears to be confinned by ineffective corre<.tive actions which are causing repetitive misadventures at the plant.

CAN's petition provides the NRC with an opportunity to carefully review its policies and procedures for nuclear plant decommissioning. If the NRC decides not to grant the actions requested by CAN, the NRC should, as an absolute minimum, explain in its response to CAN what specific objective etiteria are being applied to protect public and worker safety during decommissioning activities at Haddam Neck. In essence, if the NRC detennines that the string of misadventures at Haddam Neck do not warrant the requested actions, the NRC should attempt to convey what severity of prcblem would prompt the NRC to take actions such as those oatlined by CAN.

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